they have opened up satellite campus small town educating future dock norris a place where they will see patients. these medical students in salina kansas are pioneers. >> it's a great feeling because we are doing something that nobody has done before. >> attending what may be the smallest school in the country to offer a full four year medical program, just 16 students so far. >> i think we already are a model, largely and i think, you know, the sky is the limit for what we could do here. >> the hope is this branch of the university of kansas middle school will become much more to this town of 50,000. >> we believe that by training physicians in smaller communities, they will bond to those smaller communities and return to those smaller communities when their training is done. >> nationwide, there is an average of 250 doctors for every 100,000 people. >> in north central kansas where salina is located is about 150 per 100,000. >> as older doctors retire, the shortage of rural american doctors is expected to get worse. two kansas counties have no doctor at all. some medical students